Legend of the Big-Hearted Trolls

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Lydia Melow

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A long time ago, trolls lived in Denmark under the name of "Hjertetrolde", big-hearted trolls.

Legend has it that if you were injured and in great pain, blowing on one of these trolls would make the pain disappear. In the same way, an adult, if he had lost courage and good humor, would find it again by blowing on a troll.

The big-hearted trolls have, over time, been called otherwise because they loved to be blown on like this, many villagers called them "Pustetrolde" (literally: trolls to blow on).

This legend inspired the mobile creator, Christian Flensted, to create a mobile in the image of a Pustetrolde. The latter is inspired by a representation engraved on a stone, near the hospice where the trolls liked to live.

This Troll had a big impact on me when I was little, however, being made of plastic and quite thin, it ended up getting damaged and breaking. In his memory, I want to make a new version of these trolls, with a happier face than the original.